large partitions greater than 2TB

[CentOS] LVM on large partitions greater than 2TB
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-February/032574.html

# parted /dev/sdb
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart primary 0 2.5T
(parted) quit

# pvcreate /dev/sdb1
# vgcreate myvolume /dev/sdb1
# lvcreate -L 2.5TB myvolume

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/myvolume-lvol0

http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2006-March/msg00104.html

parted /dev/sdb
mklabel gpt
mkpart
primary
xfs
0
4196049
select /dev/sdc
mklabel gpt
mkpart
primary
xfs
0
4196049
quit

At the shell, type:

pvcreate --metadatasize 1M /dev/sd{b,c}1
vgcreate -s 128M vg0 /dev/sd[bc]1
lvcreate -n lv0 -L8T vg0
mkfs.xfs /dev/vg0/lv0


http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/lvm2faq.html#AEN407

Also, it depends on the filesystem you are using:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#Size_limits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 <-- look at the right summary table

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http://linux.vbird.org/linux_basic/0420quota.php#lvm_hint




To delete LVM try following step


fist unmount the LVM partition
delete LVM ex-lvremove LVM path
delete volume group ex-vgremove Vg path
delete PV ex- pvremove partition path
now change the id ex- fdisk /dev/sda or hda
make it 83 or other what you want